Expedition 21 - A NEW RUSSIAN MODULE TAKES FLIGHT TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Written by Administrator

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:00

The new Mini-Research Module-2, named Poisk, the Russian word for ÃƒÂ¯Ã‚Â¿Ã‚Â½explore,ÃƒÂ¯Ã‚Â¿Ã‚Â½
was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket on
Nov. 10, 2009, at 9:22 a.m. EST (8:22 p.m. Baikonur time). The Poisk is scheduled
to automatically dock to the zenith, or space-facing port of the International Space StationÃƒÂ¯Ã‚Â¿Ã‚Â½s
Zvezda Service Module on Nov. 12, 2009. The module will serve as an additional
docking port for Russian spacecraft, a second airlock for Russian-based spacewalks
and a platform for external science experiments.